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Potentially the greatest Russian novel ever written and maybe one of the top five books of all time. So deeply has it wedged itself in my heart that I can't say I am the same person I was before I read it. It is a startling story of a murder, the devastation of a man's ambitions in the bleakness of St. Petersburg, and a thorough consideration of human ambivalence and ambition. It is the frailty of ideas when confronted with reality, it is a depiction of greatness unrealized and converted into me
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19th century Russia showed not from the side of a landed gentry, but from the side of poor people. Raskolnikov kills the money lender and her daughter. He is torn, because he is chased, but has to take care of his mother and sister, who wants to marry a wealthy man to save her brother from at least financial problems. Gripping story and a masterpiece of the literature.
Jul 12, 2008
Terri
marked it as to-read
